Editors' Introduction: Archives and Archivists

Victoria Duckett is a film historian and lecturer in entertainment production at Deakin University, Melbourne. She has published extensively in the areas of performance, gender, and film history. She is on the editorial board of Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film and Feminist Media Histories. She is coeditor of the special dossier “Women and the Silent Screen” (Screening the Past, 2015) and coeditor of Researching Women in Silent Film: New Findings and Perspectives (University of Bologna, 2013). Her book Performing Passion: Sarah Bernhardt and Silent Film (2015) was recently published by the University of Illinois Press.

Jill Julius Matthews is an emeritus professor at the Australian National University. She is a historian whose research focuses on gender, modernity, sexuality, silent cinema, and popular culture. Her major books are Good and Mad Women: The Social Construction of Femininity in Twentieth Century Australia (1984), Sex in Public: Australian Sexual Cultures (ed., 1997), and Dance Hall and Picture Palace: Sydney's Romance with Modernity (2005). She has been a member of the Board of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.